Pass defense has me worried...

Ok, I am NOT a pessimist who can only find the bad stuff of the game - hell I've been so elated since yesterday I don't know what to do with mysef. I couldn't be more proud of this team.

The one major thing that concerns me is our pass defense. It's the big reason we lost to Tampa Bay last time, giving up huge plays to Galloway, and it was a nightmare all yesterday. We gave up 264 yards and 2 TDs (yes we had 2 INTs) to MIKE MCMAHON and KOY DETMER.

264 yards, 2 TDs and 2 INTs really isn't all that bad - pretty typical NFL passing. But we did this while playing against mostly Mike McMahon and a bunch of Eagles backup receivers. This should have been an absolute smother D against an offense of such low caliber.

We came out with the win, just like we have the previous 4 weeks, and that's the important thing. Stats don't matter much as long as you win.

I just gotta say it worries me - this rash of injuries to our DBs is leaving second-rate WRs wide open deep down the field.

Someone please convince me it's not as bad as I worry and we'll do fine against Tampa Bay. Please?

When your corners are as banged up as ours the coverage is bound to suffer.

Hopefully Rogers can get back into the mix this weekend.

What gets me is when we our corners or secondary has been banged up, GW blitzes more than I think he should. Like in Tampa, Taylor was out which hurt our over the middle coverage. Like yesterday too, springs was not 100%, Rogers was out we blitzed like crazy, leaving prealoui(how ever its spelled) and the stoutmeyer(probably spelled that wrong too) one on one. Taylor was blitzing on some plays too leaving those guys with no real safety help. I would think that w/ the secondary so beat up, you would play some cover two, zone, mix in a blitz here and there. Because when the blitz is picked up we are getting eaten alive, like some big plays yesterday and the whole Tampa game before. I just hope Rogers can play if spring cant, or vise versa.

What is the status of our injured secondary?

if taylor played the first time i garantee we would have won. That doesn't mean we will win this one but we would have won

We've got to shut down the run, so we can drop more guys back to give help to our DBs. If we can't stop the run, then Simms is gonna have another HOF day.

i think simms shot his load against us the first game.he hasnt played anywhere near that good since.phillip daniels has definitly gooten to be a monster the last 4 weeks.could be our difference maker

Taylor and Clark will definitly have to step up big to help out our corners. More importantly, our dline needs to keep up the pressure and force early throws to cause turnovers. They have been saving us with their stepped up play recently

I think one good hit by #21 and gallogay remembers that he is 80 years old...forget all that over the middle crap. and when #56 blitzes and rocks simms from behind he's gonna forget how to throw the ball. We all remember the phantom two point conversion. We got our front four playin great run stop defense. Not worried at all, everyone in the locker room knows they cant play like they did on sunday and win in the playoffs.----------and we are gonna win in the playoffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These past 5 games we have gotten a fair share of turnovers. Something that I think we lacked when we first played tampa. I wonder what our give-away to take-away ratio is now?